Exclusive: John Cameron Mitchell, creator of the Hedwig and the Angry Inch musical, believes “in the future, we will all be canceled for fifteen minutes” and he’s turning this idea into a podcast.
Mitchell has teamed up with Michael Cavadias, who has acted in film Wonder Boys and Hulu series Difficult People, as well as Topic Studios to create Cancellation Island.
The scripted audio series will satirize a rehab for canceled people and will be recorded in front of a live studio audience this spring.
It is Mitchell’s second audio project for Topic Studios, which was also behind musical series Anthem: Homunculus starring Glenn Close, Patti Lupone, Cynthia Erivo, Laurie Anderson, Nakhane, Denis O’Hare and Maron Cotillard.
Cancellation Island, an eight-part series, will follow wellness hack turned guru Karen and her specially curated staff of Gen Z’ers with the canceled attendees put through their paces so they...
Mitchell has teamed up with Michael Cavadias, who has acted in film Wonder Boys and Hulu series Difficult People, as well as Topic Studios to create Cancellation Island.
The scripted audio series will satirize a rehab for canceled people and will be recorded in front of a live studio audience this spring.
It is Mitchell’s second audio project for Topic Studios, which was also behind musical series Anthem: Homunculus starring Glenn Close, Patti Lupone, Cynthia Erivo, Laurie Anderson, Nakhane, Denis O’Hare and Maron Cotillard.
Cancellation Island, an eight-part series, will follow wellness hack turned guru Karen and her specially curated staff of Gen Z’ers with the canceled attendees put through their paces so they...
- 2/24/2023
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
A tribal coming-of-age ritual is the setting for this tough but sensual gay romance
John Trengove’s tough, beguiling debut looks at what happens when queerness throws a wrench in the rusty machinery of traditional masculinity. Set in the mountains of South Africa’s Eastern Cape, it centres on the Xhosa tribe’s circumcision ritual of Ukwaluka, in which young men come of age under the careful watch of their “caregivers”. Co-written with Thando Mgqolozana (whose 2009 novel A Man Who Is Not a Man visits the same subject), it embeds itself in a community of scythe-swinging, dick-slinging machismo.
Xolani or “X” (Nakhane Touré) is a young, closeted factory worker in Queenstown who is assigned as caregiver to a young initiate from the city: sensitive, pouty Kwanda (Niza Jay Ncoyini). “They trust you with the softies,” says a colleague. Kwanda could indeed be called a softie; teased for his expensive shoes,...
John Trengove’s tough, beguiling debut looks at what happens when queerness throws a wrench in the rusty machinery of traditional masculinity. Set in the mountains of South Africa’s Eastern Cape, it centres on the Xhosa tribe’s circumcision ritual of Ukwaluka, in which young men come of age under the careful watch of their “caregivers”. Co-written with Thando Mgqolozana (whose 2009 novel A Man Who Is Not a Man visits the same subject), it embeds itself in a community of scythe-swinging, dick-slinging machismo.
Xolani or “X” (Nakhane Touré) is a young, closeted factory worker in Queenstown who is assigned as caregiver to a young initiate from the city: sensitive, pouty Kwanda (Niza Jay Ncoyini). “They trust you with the softies,” says a colleague. Kwanda could indeed be called a softie; teased for his expensive shoes,...
- 4/29/2018
- by Simran Hans
- The Guardian - Film News
In his groundbreaking Oscar-nominated film The Wound, director John Trengove deals with themes relating to tradition and masculinity in modern South Africa. Staring openly gay actor Nakhane Touré, the film offers a brave and honest depiction of a gay love story between two men who have devoted their existence to helping maintain a tradition in which young men are brought into the wilderness each year to undergo the act of circumcision.
Touré is Xolani (nicknamed X), a quiet and lonely factory worker whose life has been dominated by his own standing as a closeted gay man living within the constraints of the traditional Xhosa community. In the hope of being reconciled with a former lover named Vija (Bongile Mantsai), each year X makes his way into the wilderness in order to mentor a group of young boys brought in by their fathers to undergo a traditional rite of passage which...
Touré is Xolani (nicknamed X), a quiet and lonely factory worker whose life has been dominated by his own standing as a closeted gay man living within the constraints of the traditional Xhosa community. In the hope of being reconciled with a former lover named Vija (Bongile Mantsai), each year X makes his way into the wilderness in order to mentor a group of young boys brought in by their fathers to undergo a traditional rite of passage which...
- 4/27/2018
- by Linda Marric
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Three days after scooping six prizes at the South African Film And Television Awards, the backers of Oscar short-listed festival hit The Wound were back in court yesterday to argue against the film’s adult rating.
After its initial release in South Africa on February 2 with a 16Ls rating, the movie was pulled from some venues after protests over its plot line. The gay love story is set against a local initiation custom called ulwaluko, which sees hundreds of young men sent “to the mountain” on a rite of passage experience during which they are circumcised.
The film’s exploration of tradition and identity has irked some conservatives in the country — the film’s star, Nakhane Touré, reportedly received death threats long before the film’s release and has avoided interviews — and South African regulators subsequently slapped the Sundance and Berlin 2017 title with an X18 rating, a classification generally reserved for pornographic films.
After its initial release in South Africa on February 2 with a 16Ls rating, the movie was pulled from some venues after protests over its plot line. The gay love story is set against a local initiation custom called ulwaluko, which sees hundreds of young men sent “to the mountain” on a rite of passage experience during which they are circumcised.
The film’s exploration of tradition and identity has irked some conservatives in the country — the film’s star, Nakhane Touré, reportedly received death threats long before the film’s release and has avoided interviews — and South African regulators subsequently slapped the Sundance and Berlin 2017 title with an X18 rating, a classification generally reserved for pornographic films.
- 3/29/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Véro Tshanda Beya Mputu in Félicité The 29th Palm Springs International Film Festival announced the bulk of its prizes at an awards brunch yesterday.
Among the prize winners were Alain Gomis' Oscar shortlisted Félicité, about a single mother struggling to help her son after an accident and Ziad Doueri's The Insult, which a Lebanese Christian and a Palestinian refugee become locked in a bitter court fight after a trivial argument over a piece of guttering.
Acting prizes from the Fipresci jury went to Daniela Vega for her portrayal of a trans woman struggling to get recognition from her older boyfriend's family when he dies suddenly, and Nakhane Touré for his role as a closeted gay man in John Trengove's The Wound.
The full winners - with the exception of the audience awards which will be announced today - are below.
Fipresci Prize
A special jury of international film...
Among the prize winners were Alain Gomis' Oscar shortlisted Félicité, about a single mother struggling to help her son after an accident and Ziad Doueri's The Insult, which a Lebanese Christian and a Palestinian refugee become locked in a bitter court fight after a trivial argument over a piece of guttering.
Acting prizes from the Fipresci jury went to Daniela Vega for her portrayal of a trans woman struggling to get recognition from her older boyfriend's family when he dies suddenly, and Nakhane Touré for his role as a closeted gay man in John Trengove's The Wound.
The full winners - with the exception of the audience awards which will be announced today - are below.
Fipresci Prize
A special jury of international film...
- 1/14/2018
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Daniela Vega wins Fipresci best actress award for A Fantastic Woman.
Alain Gomis’ Félicité, Senegal’s first Oscar foreign-language submission and recent shortlist addition, has won the 29th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (Psiff) Fipresci Prize for Best Foreign Language Film of the Year.
The Fipresci Prize for the best actor in a foreign language film went to Nakhane Touré from The Wound (South Africa), and Daniela Vega from A Fantastic Woman (Chile) earned the best actress prize.
In other major honours handed out at the California festival over the weekend, the New Voices New Visions Award went to The Charmer (Denmark) directed by Milad Alami, with an honourable mention for exceptional direction going to Léa Mysius for Ava (France).
The John Schlesinger Award presented to the director of a debut feature documentary went to Viktor Jakovleski for Brimstone And Glory (Us-Mexico, and the Cine Latino Award for best Ibero-American was presented to Killing Jesús (Colombia-Argentina) by Laura...
Alain Gomis’ Félicité, Senegal’s first Oscar foreign-language submission and recent shortlist addition, has won the 29th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (Psiff) Fipresci Prize for Best Foreign Language Film of the Year.
The Fipresci Prize for the best actor in a foreign language film went to Nakhane Touré from The Wound (South Africa), and Daniela Vega from A Fantastic Woman (Chile) earned the best actress prize.
In other major honours handed out at the California festival over the weekend, the New Voices New Visions Award went to The Charmer (Denmark) directed by Milad Alami, with an honourable mention for exceptional direction going to Léa Mysius for Ava (France).
The John Schlesinger Award presented to the director of a debut feature documentary went to Viktor Jakovleski for Brimstone And Glory (Us-Mexico, and the Cine Latino Award for best Ibero-American was presented to Killing Jesús (Colombia-Argentina) by Laura...
- 1/14/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Daniela Vega wins Fipresci best actress award for A Fantastic Woman.
Alain Gomis’ Félicité, Senegal’s first Oscar foreign-language submission and recent shortlist addition, has won the 29th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (Psiff) Fipresci Prize for Best Foreign Language Film of the Year.
The Fipresci Prize for the best actor in a foreign language film went to Nakhane Touré from The Wound (South Africa), and Daniela Vega from A Fantastic Woman (Chile) earned the best actress prize.
In other major honours handed out at the California festival over the weekend, the New Voices New Visions Award went to The Charmer (Denmark) directed by Milad Alami, with an honourable mention for exceptional direction going to Léa Mysius for Ava (France).
The John Schlesinger Award presented to the director of a debut feature documentary went to Viktor Jakovleski for Brimstone And Glory (Us-Mexico, and the Cine Latino Award for best Ibero-American was presented to Killing Jesús (Colombia-Argentina) by Laura...
Alain Gomis’ Félicité, Senegal’s first Oscar foreign-language submission and recent shortlist addition, has won the 29th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (Psiff) Fipresci Prize for Best Foreign Language Film of the Year.
The Fipresci Prize for the best actor in a foreign language film went to Nakhane Touré from The Wound (South Africa), and Daniela Vega from A Fantastic Woman (Chile) earned the best actress prize.
In other major honours handed out at the California festival over the weekend, the New Voices New Visions Award went to The Charmer (Denmark) directed by Milad Alami, with an honourable mention for exceptional direction going to Léa Mysius for Ava (France).
The John Schlesinger Award presented to the director of a debut feature documentary went to Viktor Jakovleski for Brimstone And Glory (Us-Mexico, and the Cine Latino Award for best Ibero-American was presented to Killing Jesús (Colombia-Argentina) by Laura...
- 1/14/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
The cut only only takes a fraction of a second, but the trauma it leaves behind takes a lifetime to heal. It happens every winter, as teenage boys of South Africa’s Xhosa culture are spirited up to the hills around their hometowns, stripped down and smothered in ghostly white paint, and told to spread their legs. Their foreskins are then sliced away by tribal surgeons, many of whom use rusted knives rather than sterile medical equipment. All the same, it’s absolutely forbidden for the initiates to scream out in pain. This is a rite of passage, the start of a three-week initiation ritual meant to confer manhood — boys cry, but men suffer in silence. As Nelson Mandela wrote in his memoir: “An uncircumcised Xhosa man is a contradiction in terms.”
Ukwaluka is a time-honored practice; it began long before Mandela himself endured the experience in 1934, and it still...
Ukwaluka is a time-honored practice; it began long before Mandela himself endured the experience in 1934, and it still...
- 8/16/2017
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Winner of the International Jury Prize at Outfest Los Angeles, the debut feature of director John Trengove comes to the Film Forum in N.Y. August 16 and The Laemmle Royal in L.A. September 8.
“The Wound” by John Trengove has legs, beginning its trek at Sundance World Cinema Competition, proceeding to the Rotterdam Film Fest Tiger Competition and then going onward to the Berlinale Panorama as its Opening Night Film.
In a mountainous corner of the Eastern Cape of South Africa, an age-old Xhosa ritual introducing adolescent boys to manhood continues to this day. Addressing the narrow depiction of black masculinity in South African Cinema, it is a tough and strong film of two men in the midst of the rite of passage of circumcision in which they are caregivers for the male adolescents. And they are also gay, something that must be kept quiet and unsaid.
This is the...
“The Wound” by John Trengove has legs, beginning its trek at Sundance World Cinema Competition, proceeding to the Rotterdam Film Fest Tiger Competition and then going onward to the Berlinale Panorama as its Opening Night Film.
In a mountainous corner of the Eastern Cape of South Africa, an age-old Xhosa ritual introducing adolescent boys to manhood continues to this day. Addressing the narrow depiction of black masculinity in South African Cinema, it is a tough and strong film of two men in the midst of the rite of passage of circumcision in which they are caregivers for the male adolescents. And they are also gay, something that must be kept quiet and unsaid.
This is the...
- 7/20/2017
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
The movies don’t necessarily need any more coming-of-age films, but ones as challenging and potent as John Trengove’s “The Wound” remind you why this genre can be so impactful in the first place. For starters, this South African drama doesn’t focus on blossoming teenage sexuality, but rather what happens when middle-aged men are forced to confront the evolution of their own masculinity and identity.
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Xolani (Nakhane Touré) is a lonely factory worker in his thirties who travels to the rural mountains with the men of his community to initiate a group of teenage boys into manhood. But the ritual forces Xolani to confront his own issues with manhood and sexual identity, an internal struggle that forces his entire existence to unravel.
South African cinema rarely gets the chance to make a name for itself stateside,...
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Xolani (Nakhane Touré) is a lonely factory worker in his thirties who travels to the rural mountains with the men of his community to initiate a group of teenage boys into manhood. But the ritual forces Xolani to confront his own issues with manhood and sexual identity, an internal struggle that forces his entire existence to unravel.
South African cinema rarely gets the chance to make a name for itself stateside,...
- 7/14/2017
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
The debut feature of director John Trengove comes to theaters in the U.S. August 16, brought to you by Kino-Lorber Films. “The Wound” is the only film ever to world premiere in Sundance, continue into Hivos Tiger Competition in Rotterdam and then play Opening Night at the Berlinale Panorama.
In a mountainous corner of the Eastern Cape of South Africa, an age-old Xhosa ritual introducing adolescent boys to manhood continues to this day.
This is the backdrop for the stark and stirring first feature by John Trengove, in which Xolani, a quiet and sensitive factory worker (played by musician Nakhane Touré), travels to a remote mountain camp in South Africa to tend teenage boys going through a traditional Xhola rite of passage. This year, Xolani is assigned to mentor Kwanda, a coddled Jo’burg boy who challenges the customs of the camp and is ostracized by other initiates. Kwanda, as observant as he is insolent,...
In a mountainous corner of the Eastern Cape of South Africa, an age-old Xhosa ritual introducing adolescent boys to manhood continues to this day.
This is the backdrop for the stark and stirring first feature by John Trengove, in which Xolani, a quiet and sensitive factory worker (played by musician Nakhane Touré), travels to a remote mountain camp in South Africa to tend teenage boys going through a traditional Xhola rite of passage. This year, Xolani is assigned to mentor Kwanda, a coddled Jo’burg boy who challenges the customs of the camp and is ostracized by other initiates. Kwanda, as observant as he is insolent,...
- 6/6/2017
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
The Museum of Modern Art and the Film Society of Lincoln Center has today announces their complete lineup for the 46th annual New Directors/New Films (Nd/Nf), running March 15 – 26. Dedicated to the discovery of new works by emerging and dynamic filmmaking talent, this year’s festival will screen 29 features and nine short films. This year’s lineup boasts nine North American premieres, seven U.S. premieres, and two world premieres, with features and shorts from 32 countries across five continents.
The opening, centerpiece, and closing night selections showcase three exciting new voices in American independent cinema that all recently debuted at Sundance: Geremy Jasper’s “Patti Cake$” is the opening night pick, while Eliza Hittman’s “Beach Rats” is the centerpiece selection and Dustin Guy Defa will close the festival with “Person to Person.” Other standouts include “Menashe,” “My Happy Family,” “Quest” and “The Wound.”
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The opening, centerpiece, and closing night selections showcase three exciting new voices in American independent cinema that all recently debuted at Sundance: Geremy Jasper’s “Patti Cake$” is the opening night pick, while Eliza Hittman’s “Beach Rats” is the centerpiece selection and Dustin Guy Defa will close the festival with “Person to Person.” Other standouts include “Menashe,” “My Happy Family,” “Quest” and “The Wound.”
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- 2/15/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Exclusive: Kino Lorber has acquired the Sundance premiere.
Kino Lorber has acquired all North American rights from Pyramide International to John Trengove’s Panorama selection The Wound.
The drama premiered in Sundance last month and received its European premiere here on Saturday night (Feb 11).
The Wound takes place in the South African province of Eastern Cape, as a lonely factory worker takes time off his job to assist during an annual Xhosa circumcision initiation into manhood.
When he ends up caring for a young initiate, he confides about his closet homosexuality. Openly gay South African singer Nakhane Touré stars and Trengove, Thando Mgqolozana and Malusi Bengu wrote the screenplay.
Kino Lorber plans a summer theatrical release after key festival playdates, followed by VoD and home media roll-out in the fourth quarter.
“The Wound is cinema that transcends national borders and asks quintessential and urgent questions about human nature, sexuality and our most foundational assumptions,” said [link=co...
Kino Lorber has acquired all North American rights from Pyramide International to John Trengove’s Panorama selection The Wound.
The drama premiered in Sundance last month and received its European premiere here on Saturday night (Feb 11).
The Wound takes place in the South African province of Eastern Cape, as a lonely factory worker takes time off his job to assist during an annual Xhosa circumcision initiation into manhood.
When he ends up caring for a young initiate, he confides about his closet homosexuality. Openly gay South African singer Nakhane Touré stars and Trengove, Thando Mgqolozana and Malusi Bengu wrote the screenplay.
Kino Lorber plans a summer theatrical release after key festival playdates, followed by VoD and home media roll-out in the fourth quarter.
“The Wound is cinema that transcends national borders and asks quintessential and urgent questions about human nature, sexuality and our most foundational assumptions,” said [link=co...
- 2/11/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Xolani (Nakhane Touré) and Kwanda (Niza Jay Ncoyini) as Caregiver and Initiate in The Wound. Trengove: 'I was conscious that it needed to be as raw as possible and one of the ways that I did that was to constantly stay with character' Photo: Urucu Media John Trengove’s The Wound may at first glance look like a familiar coming-of-age story, as a group of young Xhosa initiates prepare for the Ukwaluka ritual - that marks the start of their adulthood with circumcision and the subsequent healing. But the film develops into a much more complex interrogation of masculinity, as gay young initiate Kwanda (Niza Jay Ncoyini) has a self-confidence and sense of identity that threatens his Caregiver Xolani (Nakhane Touré), who has hidden his homosexuality from his community for years. We caught up with Trengove at Sundance to talk about his film, which also plays in the Panorama section...
- 2/9/2017
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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